November 13th: The Day of The Daddy

It involves finding & posting information about what has happened on your birthday over the years; it’s pretty easy as you just have to type the month & day into Wikipedia’s search box.

She’s going for it: the idea is to have at least 1 post for every day of the year! She’s tagged specific bloggers but has also opened it up to anyone who wants to participate, so I thought it would be rude to refuse, really.

So here we go:

When is your birthday? Ah, the hard ones first! November 13th

Pick three people who share your birthday and share what you know about them

Quite a varied bunch:

– (Saint) Augustine of Hippo (354 – 430): North African based Christian scholar, one of the prime architects of the early church & its theology & doctrine

No-one else I know of really; there’s a Pope (Nicholas I, 867) & a King of Scotland (Malcolm III, 1093)

List three notable events that took place on your birthday.

My birthday has a bloody history!

1642: The Battle of Turnham Green in the English Civil War
1887: Bloody Sunday in London
1942: The WWII Naval Battle of Guadalcanal fought between the USA & Japan
1947: The USSR finished developing the AK47
1990: In New Zealand David Gray shot & killed 13 people in the ‘Aramoana Massacre‘

I’m somewhat cheekily counting all those as 1: slaughter is slaughter, after all…

More positively: in 1956 the USA Supreme Court ruled against Alabama’s segregated buses laws, and in 1971 the USA Mars probe Mariner 9 became the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.

Hi, I’m ‘JallieDaddy’ ('JD' - geddit?). In my late forties I became a Dad, of the stay-at-home variety, to twins Jake & Ellie ('Jallie'). Slightly premature & needing a lot of TLC they are now 5 & full o' beans! For more please see my 'About Us' page.

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